Adonis
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Is historic male dominance in sports teetering like a marble Adonis on a wobbly pedestal?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"The absence of cases here is very reassuring," said Adonis Carvajal, who works for a tour operator.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Until the 1990s, that is, when relentless tabloid coverage reinvented him as New York City’s Adonis.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
In between Coogler projects, Jordan starred in “Just Mercy” as real-life death row attorney Bryan Stevenson and directed “Creed III,” reprising his role as Adonis “Donnie” Creed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
He was a strong and gifted athlete, charming, smart, and immensely good-looking–"handsome almost to a fault," in the description of William H. Cropper, "an Adonis" in the words of another admirer.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The matchbooks on display at the library, nostalgic artifacts adorned with images of muscled Adonises and punning slogans, were everyday objects — used and discarded — at the time they were made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
A stark difference between me and the zero-body-fat Adonises.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2016
When a trend is embraced by both the baby-oiled Adonises of luxury fashion and the ruling-class matrons of the Old World, you know somebody’s doing something wrong.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
In this alternate universe, the gods are bronzed-faced Adonises and everyone bleeds yellow and green.
From Washington Post
They are not Apollos, and Venuses, nor Adonises, that knock at painters' doors.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - High School
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